SPOTLIGHT

Madagascar becomes 101st State Party after joining the Convention on Cluster Munitions

Security Council Press Statement on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Ballistic Missile Launch

High Representative Nakamitsu’s Security Council briefing on elimination of the chemical weapons programme of Syria and update on activities of OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism

High Representative Nakamitsu’s remarks to the Georgetown University Master of Science in Foreign Service Tropaia 2017

High Representative Nakamitsu interviewed by Yomiuri (Japan) on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Convention

Note Verbale from the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty President regarding draft text of the legally binding instrument

Letter from the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty President regarding briefing to be held in Geneva on 22 May on draft text of legal instrument

Report of the OPCW fact-finding mission in the Syrian Arab Republic regarding the incident of 16 September 2016

DISARMAMENT IN THE NEWS

Imaging drones to spot signs of explosive chemicals leaking from landmines

UNFOLD ZERO interviews UN General Assembly President

Project to connect American youth with Atomic Bomb survivors (Hibakusha) winding down

japantimes.co.jp

Showing Hiroshima’s Reality

FEATURED CONTENT

2017 Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

Website for the UN Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons

Disarmament Education

UN Report on Military Expenditures

UNODA UPDATE

UNODA’s regional centre in Lima and OAS provide regional platform for States in Latin America and the Caribbean to engage in open debate on preventing WMD proliferation to non-State actors

UN Disarmament Commission adopts by consensus “Practical confidence-building measures in the field of conventional weapons”

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and European Union Delegation in Geneva co-host a Workshop in Support of the Biological Weapons Convention Extended Assistance Programmes

Former President of Costa Rica opens UNODA Women Scholarship for Peace training course

Technical and Legal Assistance Project to Support the Philippines in the Implementation of the UN PoA and the ATT

ANNOUNCEMENTS

For Member States: New deadlines and procedures for the processing of the reports of the Secretary-General on disarmament issues

Information for non-governmental organizations and their representatives wishing to participate in the 2nd session of the UN Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards their Total Elimination, 15 June – 7 July 2017

Information for participation by non-governmental organizations to the 2017 NPT PrepCom in Vienna

Information for participation by States parties, observer States and intergovernmental organizations to the 2017 NPT PrepCom in Vienna

EVENTS